Press releases
Exceptional Uzbek woman honoured in Geneva on 20 Novembere - 19 November 2008
Mutabar Tadzhibaeva, a human rights activist from Uzbekistan, will receive the 2008 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (MEA) on Thursday, 20 NovemberSri Lanka: Hundreds of thousands trapped in the Wanni need urgent shelters - 19 November 2008
The Sri Lankan government must immediately end its policy of blocking humanitarian aid needed to reach an estimated 300,000 displaced people in the Wanni region of northern Sri Lanka, Amnesty International said today.Colombia: Stop false accusations against human rights groups, government should address reported abuses - 19 November 2008
(Washington/London) President Álvaro Uribe of Colombia should stop making false and dangerous accusations against human rights groups that criticize his government, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today in a joint statement. Colombia should instead address the human rights concerns they raise.Czech Republic: No to racist attacks - 18 November 2008
The Czech authorities must put an immediate end to the increasing verbal and physical attacks against the Roma community by far right groups and prosecute those breaching the law, Amnesty International said todayGeorgia/Russia conflict: Counting the cost of war: Return, security and truth still a long way off - 18 November 2008
One hundred days after the August conflict, over 20,000 ethnic Georgians are still unable to return to their homes in South Ossetia, while many of those, on both sides of the conflict, who have gone back have found their homes pillaged or destroyedUnited Nations: Breakthrough in access to justice for all rights - 18 November 2008
Amnesty International welcomed today’s adoption of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, by the UN General Assembly's Third Committee in New York.Amnesty International welcomes commitment to close Guantánamo - 17 November 2008
President-elect Obama’s statement in a CBS interview yesterday that he will follow through on his commitment to close the detention centre at Guantánamo Bay is an important step in the right direction, Amnesty International said today.Uganda: Government miserably failing in care of victims of conflict - 17 November 2008
Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children who suffered abuses during the 20-year conflict in Northern Uganda remain destitute and physically and mentally traumatized due to the government's failure to put in place a comprehensive reparations programme, Amnesty International said today.Democratic Republic of Congo: Human rights groups request special session of Human Rights Council - 17 November 2008
As the civilian death toll in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues to rise, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and more than forty other organizations active in Africa warned today that the situation in the eastern DRC is at risk of turning into a humanitarian catastrophe, and called on the UN Human Rights Council to convene a special session on the crisis without delay.
